The Unknown Studio

Welcome to the second season of the Unknown Studio with guest Brittney Le Blanc! Here’s what we cover this show!

• 0:00: Show intro and beginning of interview with Brittney Le Blanc
• 6:10: An interview with local mom and bicycle blogger Ms Sarah Chan
• 20:44: We discuss Heroes with Brittney Le Blanc
• 32:47: Scott, Brittney and Adam answer your random Formspring questions (h/t to our pals at Makin’ Whoopee for the idea)
• 43:45: A dramatic reading… with Scott C. Bourgeois
• 48:05: We discuss Brittney’s robot double… and Girl Geek Dinners (shout out to Sally Poulsen @ 48:45)
• 1:02:00: The Fast Fifteen with Brittney Le Blanc

Let us know what you thought, everyone! Do you dig the new format? Hate it? TELL US!

Download episode 27 of the Unknown Studio directly to your computer.

The Unknown Studio is a proud member of the League of Extraordinary Media.

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EDMONTON JOURNAL STILL SPONSORS THE UNKNOWN STUDIO
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It’s true! After so much joking and tongue-in-cheek referrals to Edmonton’s newspaper of record on our show, the Edmonton Journal decided to put their money where our mouths are, by sponsoring the Unknown Studio this month!

We’re helping EJ to promote their Blackberry mobile launcher. You can check it out by clicking here on your Blackberry browser. If you have any comments about the mobile launcher or the Journal’s mobile site, let us know and we’ll pass it along!
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We’ve been talking up the new format of the show a lot over the last couple of weeks. And as Scott and I put some finishing touches on the new episode, we have to admit something to you: the release of S02E01 will be delayed until later this week.

We’d like to borrow a page from the book of Nate Box, who only opened his elm café when he was satisfied that it was ready. We demand the exact same satisfaction on your behalf, fifties of listeners/readers.

When we’re ready with the new episode later on this week, there will be much fanfare. In the meantime, cozy up to a few outtakes from the Back to the Future movies:

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It’s been a busy week for me, friends. From posting about the Unknown Studio’s birthday, to prepping for our next show, to the day job and life in general, I haven’t really had a moment’s rest since last weekend. So, for this week’s FML Friday, I’m introducing “quick hits.” I’ll respond to five FMLs instead of three, but the responses will be no longer than one or two sentences.

Are you ready? Read the rest of this entry »

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This post marks the last installment in our birthday celebration series. We think after this, we’ll have done enough navel-gazing to last us for, oh, I don’t know, about another year. Until we hit S03E01. In this post, we speculate on the future of the show and its place in this fair city. And, because they’ll form a big part of our plans for the next year, we’ll also talk a little bit about our friends from the League of Extraordinary Media (LEM). Thanks for reading this week, and stay tuned for our season premiere next week!

Doctor Emmett Brown conceived of a method of time travel when he hit his head on a toilet bowl while trying to hang a clock in his washroom. The Unknown Studio’s genesis is no less riveting, but it really involves drinking beer from a toilet, not bumping one’s head on it.

But we’ve discussed the past all week long. What of this triumphant future we continually espouse? A few things:

• This website was only the start — or rather, the natural progression of the Unknown Studio. We have plans to create some pretty cool video with the help of our friends at LEM.
• Since YEGSwap was such a rousing success, we’re looking at doing more events this year. Perhaps even all regular-like.
• The show itself will change — this we’ve already mentioned. But it will still focus on the goings-on in Edmonton.
• I will continue to swear, because I enjoy the sound of curse words (which means some of our listeners will need to put the kids to bed before tuning in).
• Thanks to the sponsorship dollars we have coming in (we LOVE Guru Digital Arts College and Traveling Tickle Trunk for their support and love), we’ll be able to do more timely, diverse things with the show.
• No one shot JR; it was all a dream.

One of the major points of beginning this podcast was to help citizens of Edmonton shed the notion that there isn’t anything interesting taking place in this city. And while I’m the first to admit that sometimes I feel bored, there are resources out there to help you make the most of Edmonton. This is one of them. So is theEdmontonian.com and TrueBritl.com. Mack Male created ShareEdmonton to show that very thing.

Two years ago, I was hell bent on leaving this place. Despite the fact that I was born and raised here, I didn’t feel like I had a personal stake in the city. This show has changed all that. There are thousands of cool people and cool things happening in old Why Ee Gee all the time.

The future? The future is about sharing that with you all. I hope you’ll continue to count yourselves among our 50s of listeners and readers. This city may not have been built on rock n’ roll, but there’s enough rockers and rollers here that the fortunes of Edmonton have taken a turn and will continue to take a turn for the better. And we want to be part of those fortunes.

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The Unknown Studio turns one this week. Today, in fact! A few of the articles we’ve published this week are celebrating this fact, with a look back on what we’ve accomplished over the year. Today’s installment is all about the podcast.

Yes, friends, today marks our official first birthday. The Unknown Studio turns one today — sometime later this afternoon to be precisely. And though we’ve already done a bit of a summary of the last year, using data from the ever-popular Fast Fifteen, I thought I’d get into a few more details about the show’s successes.

As we’ve explained before, this whole concept started at a tweet-up. It was all downhill from there. We started the show using the LibSyn podcasting service — which served us very well for a time… But eventually we wanted to host everything ourselves, with our own website, theme and all. That’s what you’re looking at right now.

But the consistent piece throughout our one-year history has always been the podcast. And while we started out our first six or so episodes with an average per-episode download rate of about 150, we’ve since grown… Read the rest of this entry »

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The Unknown Studio turns one this week (June 23). A few of the articles we’re publishing this week will commemorate our birthday, with a look back on what we’ve accomplished over the year. Today’s installment includes another look at the Fast 15 (check out the previous post here). In particular, we dive into some of the more interesting or peculiar responses we’ve had to a few of our questions.

In our first installment of our TUS retrospective, we gave you some very deep and thoughtful pie charts that detail the splits in responses to some of our Fast Fifteen questions. Some questions, however, yield such unusual results that they simply defy the concept of pie charts.

These are their stories. Read the rest of this entry »

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